Collective Biography: An Introduction

Post-edit Analysis of Collective Biography Generation

Text generation is increasingly common but often requires manual post-editing where high precision is critical to end users. However, manual editing is expensive so we want to ensure this effort is focused on high-value tasks. And we want to maintain stylistic consistency, a particular challenge in crowd settings. We present a case study, analysing human post-editing in the context of a templat...

An Introduction to Collective Intelligence

This paper surveys the emerging science of how to design a “COllective INtelligence” (COIN). A COIN is a large multi-agent system where: i) There is little to no centralized communication or control. ii) There is a provided world utility function that rates the possible histories of the full system. In particular, we are interested in COINs in which each agent runs a reinforcement learning (RL)...

Collective behavior and evolutionary games - An introduction

This is an introduction to the special issue titled “Collective behavior and evolutionary games” that is in the making at Chaos, Solitons & Fractals. The term collective behavior covers many different phenomena in nature and society. From bird flocks and fish swarms to social movements and herding effects [1–5], it is the lack of a central planner that makes the spontaneous emergence of sometim...

Biography of an Experiment

This document allows the reader to examine the development of this paper and attempts to form a Biography of the experiments that led up to the formulation of these ideas and the shaping of this project. When you see that a piece of text or an image is highlighted or boxed in placing you mouse over it will provide you with additional information. Additionally, text surrounded a black box is lin...

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics